Change Date format in chart axis but not in excel - c#

I am trying to get a xlWorkSheet range and format it to "MMM/YYYY" in the xAxis of a chart. But I dont want to change the date format in that WorkSheet cells where I am taking the info and where I want to keep having a "MM/YYYY" format.
I've already formatted the row to "MM/YYYY" and "MMM/YYYY", but not to use one in the excel table and the other one in just the chart.
My code is:
ChartObject myChart
Chart chartPage = myChart.Chart;
chartPage.ChartType = XlChartType.xlArea;
var yAxis = (Axis)chartPage.Axes(XlAxisType.xlValue, XlAxisGroup.xlPrimary);
Axis.HasTitle = false;
Range chartRange = xlWorkSheet.Range[xlWorkSheet.Cells[4, 1],
xlWorkSheet.Cells[rows, columns]];
Range x_Range = xlWorkSheet.Range[xlWorkSheet.Cells[1, 2], xlWorkSheet.Cells[1, columnsCount]];
Range x_Range2 = x_Range.EntireRow.NumberFormat("MMM/YYYY");
Axis xAxis = (Axis)chartPage.Axes(XlAxisType.xlValue, XlAxisGroup.xlPrimary);
xAxis.CategoryNames = x_Range2;
(...series definition... and rest of code)

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How can I, let's say, set the axes titles?
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I am inserting an image in an excel cell, but usually that image will be larger, both in height and in width than the original cell. So after I have inserted my image I would like to: resize the specific excel row and column according to the image's size. This is what I have:
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The below would set height and width of your cell to respective picture height and width if you apply ratio of Column widths to Row Heights:
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I'm using Interop excel 12.0 to create a chart.
My assigned datarange to yaxis starts from 7/5/2010 till 8/29/2011. but Y axis on chart starts from 7/12/2010 and ends at 8/22/2011 however the chart line growth shows the datas from start to end
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